When companies want industry-leading efficiency scalability and reliability for his or her SAP ERP panorama, they flip to IBM® Power® for his or her compute infrastructure. I can pull an inventory of benchmarks that spotlight why over 4,500 prospects run SAP HANA on Energy—highest SAP-certified reminiscence scalability, management in SAPS efficiency benchmarks, ranked most dependable amongst SAP-certified infrastructure platforms, and so forth.
IBM Power Virtual Server delivers that platform expertise in a multi-tenant atmosphere with entry to IBM Cloud companies. We’re targeted on accelerating the cloud transfer for Energy deployments by automating the Day 1 and Day 2 operations in Energy Digital Server. Automation can shrink SAP deployment from weeks to hours and assist keep away from error and configuration variance. The time taken by varied automated elements is detailed in Mike Moore’s blog post.
Deployable architectures
Automation in IBM Cloud is delivered as a “deployable structure.” We GA’ed the deployable structure (DA) for SAP S/4HANA which relies on one of the best practices from each IBM and SAP. Let’s dive into the small print.
To entry DAs, click here or go to IBM Cloud catalog and choose Deployable architectures from the filters on left facet of the web page.
You’ll discover the beneath tiles, together with different DAs.
- Energy Digital Server with VPC Touchdown Zone
- Energy Digital Server for SAP HANA
Energy Digital Server with VPC touchdown zone
Shoppers transferring from on-premises to Energy Digital Server is probably not acquainted with community connectivity, storage configurations and one of the best practices to deploy cloud infrastructure. Energy Digital Server with VPC touchdown zone helps to get the situations up and operating shortly, securely and with minimal guide intervention. It automates the deployment of the next elements:
- Provisions three VPCs with one VSI in every VPC:
- One administration (leap/bastion) VSI
- One inet-svs VSI configured as squid proxy server
- One private-svs VSI configured as NFS, NTP, DNS server
- Installs and configures the Squid Proxy, DNS Forwarder, NTP forwarder and NFS on hosts, and units the host because the server for the NTP, NFS, and DNS companies through the use of Ansible roles.
A PowerVS workspace occasion with the next community topology. Creates two non-public networks: a administration community and a backup community. Creates one or two IBM Cloud connections. Attaches the IBM Cloud connections to a transit gateway. Attaches the non-public networks to the IBM Cloud connections. Creates an SSH key.
Energy Digital Server for SAP HANA
This DA is designed to help you in deploying SAP S/4HANA software program landscapes into the IBM Energy Digital Server infrastructure. That is the second step within the deployment course of to organize SAP-certified Energy Digital Server situations for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver workloads. After the deployment is full, you might (relying on the framework you selected) start putting in SAP on the configured situations or login to your newly created SAP situations instantly.
The Energy Digital Server for SAP HANA structure automates the deployment of the next duties, all based mostly on finest practices:
- Creates and configures one Energy Digital Server occasion for SAP HANA.
- Creates and configures a number of Energy Digital Server situations for SAP NetWeaver.
- Creates and configures one non-compulsory Energy Digital Server occasion that can be utilized for sharing SAP recordsdata between different system situations.
- Connects all created Energy Digital Server situations to a proxy server that’s specified by IP deal with or hostname.
- Optionally connects all created Energy Digital Server situations to an NTP server and DNS forwarder which are specified by IP deal with or hostname.
- Optionally configures a shared NFS listing on all created Energy Digital Server situations.
Get began
These deployable architectures not solely assist automate the deployment of the infrastructure for SAP provisioning however may also be used for AIX, IBM i, or Linux deployment on Energy Digital Server. You may additional join it to x86-based workloads operating on IBM Cloud, enabling you to make the most of workload-optimized infrastructure throughout Energy and x86.
Check out the deployable architectures for IBM Power Virtual Servers
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